09/10/2024
23 years have have passed 9/11/2001 Never Forget.
The 5th verse of NYC State of Mind I wrote for those in the towers that survived.
“NYC State of Mind”
T-Case
USMC/LAPD
Years have past,
with many more to go
before our hearts can heal
The pain still lingers,
sights, sounds, smells,
still fresh, and never seem to fade
We go back
Move on we must, we will,
and we have
Still, Back we go in time,
from time to time,
all the time
To forget, we will not
To never forget, we will
We go back
Remembering— takes it’s toll,
to not, not an option
not possible
To be and always will be
forever remembered
We go back
The anniversary, a peak
to reflect and remember
Our minds drift, hearts sink
and Souls wonder
For many, far more than annually,
daily, hourly, consumingly, destructively
We go back
Reminded we survived
Lucky they say,
We understand,
that you don’t understand.
We are dead, died just the same,
when death knocked that day
Our murder is slow, on going,
The living dead, but make no mistake,
we are dead, and died that day
We go back
We see our brothers once in a while,
In an old film or photograph,
A glimpse from the past,
reaction, always the same,
unmistakable, uncontrollable,
physical freeze,
we pause and remember.
We go back
An unprovoked attack,
Our brothers could’t stand
They fought, until their fall
A sky line changed forever
Careful calculation, well executed,
Flawed beyond imagination
We go forward
Damage, fear, chaos,
exceeds expectations
Cloaked, is your failure,
lack of vision to forecast
Our sword, rising from the ashes,
a reckoning to avenge,
a wrath, to end at death.
We go forward
Ghosts embedded, hunting
month after month, year after year,
they will not stop, rest or quit
Shadows, stalk their prey,
Spook is hungry, starts to feed
devouring, digesting
We go forward
Knights, Hovering in the Blackness,
unseen unheard, drop into Darkness.
Swift, Silent, Maneuvering in the Night.
knock knock at your door, Death.
We go forward and back
Geronimo
